
Past Lives(2023)
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.



George Bancroft
Bill Roberts

Betty Compson
Mae

Olga Baclanova
Lou

Clyde Cook
'Sugar' Steve

Mitchell Lewis
Andy

Guy Oliver
The Crimp
May Foster
Mrs. Crimp

Lillian Worth
Steve's Girl

Gustav von Seyffertitz
Hymn Book Harry

Richard Alexander
Lou's Sweetheart (uncredited)
The Docks of New York is a drama, romance film released in 1928 exploring themes of prison, new york city, ship, suicide attempt, habor. Directed by Josef von Sternberg, it stars George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova. A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
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